Example sentences for: slips

How can you use “slips” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a handful of slips taken from the top of my stack, I found at least one clear-cut morox: Nevada is “much more sparsely populated” than eastern states, according to Robin MacNeil (MacNeil/Lehrer News Report, PBS, 29 May 1986).

  • Of course, the Cell Phone Haters Club has already convened an emergency meeting to discuss these exciting rat-related findings, which was the whole reason I had to rush out of the house so early this morning instead of helping you feed all the children, round up lunch money, sign permission slips for field trips to the Bronx Zoo in June, pick a wad of gum from the baby's hair and hustle the older ones off to the bus without jackets.

  • In the '50s, nobody wanted the movies to show all that except for the Italian ones, where the sexiest women all wore ill-fitting slips and had hairy armpits, too.

  • He and your readers, if they appreciate the French language, will realize that slips of the tongue in the English language are laughably unfunny to the French who speak the only language in the world that lends itself so beautifully to what they call a contrèpeterie .

  • During the 1988 presidential campaign both candidates, reading from prepared notes, made interesting slips of the eye: Governor Dukakis spoke of equipping aircraft carriers with modern “musicians” [munitions], and Vice President Bush said: “I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism.”


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